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A side-by-side chart comparing the processes of metacognition and infracognition.
Metacognition | Infracognition |
1. Planning: Setting goals and strategies | 1. Sensory-Emotional Integration: Immediate tagging of sensory input with emotional information |
2. Monitoring: Tracking progress and comprehension | 2. Intuitive Pattern Recognition: Rapid, subconscious identification of patterns |
3. Evaluating: Assessing effectiveness of strategies | 3. Embodied Simulation: Mental simulation using bodily states and sensations |
4. Reflecting: Thinking about one's own thinking | 4. Pre-verbal Conceptualization: Formation of concepts before articulation |
5. Regulating: Adjusting strategies based on evaluation | 5. Emotional-Somatic Resonance: Body's physical response to stimuli |
6. Problem-solving: Consciously working through challenges | 6. Implicit Learning Integration: Incorporation of implicitly learned information |
7. Decision-making: Consciously weighing options | 7. Intuitive Synthesis: Combining information to form new insights without deliberation |
Summary:
Metacognition is a conscious, deliberate process that involves thinking about one's own thinking. It follows a structured approach of planning, monitoring, evaluating, reflecting, regulating, problem-solving, and decision-making. These processes are typically slow, methodical, and often verbalized.
Infracognition, on the other hand, is a subconscious, intuitive process that integrates sensory, emotional, and cognitive elements. It involves rapid sensory-emotional integration, intuitive pattern recognition, embodied simulation, pre-verbal conceptualization, emotional-somatic resonance, implicit learning integration, and intuitive synthesis. These processes are typically fast, non-verbal or pre-verbal, and deeply connected to bodily sensations and emotions.
The key difference lies in the level of consciousness and the speed of processing. While metacognition is a conscious, strategic approach to thinking, infracognition operates at a subconscious level, integrating bodily sensations, emotions, and implicit learning into cognitive processes.
Sources validating these processes:
Metacognition:
Flavell, J. H. (1979). Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive-developmental inquiry. American Psychologist, 34(10), 906-911.
Schraw, G., & Moshman, D. (1995). Metacognitive theories. Educational Psychology Review, 7(4), 351-371.
Infracognition:
Mottron, L., Dawson, M., Soulières, I., Hubert, B., & Burack, J. (2006). Enhanced perceptual functioning in autism: An update, and eight principles of autistic perception. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(1), 27-43.
Damasio, A. R. (1996). Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Quill.
Barrett, L. F. (2020). Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Shapiro, L. (2019). Embodied Cognition. Routledge.
Wilson, M. (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9(4), 625-636.
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